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Carleton Watkins – The Complete Mammoth Photographs
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Description for Carleton Watkins – The Complete Mammoth Photographs
Hardback.
This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The extraordinary body of work by photographer Carleton Watkins - taken between 1858 and 1891 - constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in 19th-century American photography. Nearly 13,000 "mammoth" (18 X 22 inch) glass-plate negatives were produced, the majority of which exist in only one surviving print. Of these, fewer than 300 have ever been previously reproduced or exhibited. Drawing on painstaking research, the authors have assembled and catalogued all Watkins' known mammoth-plate photographs, including views of Yosemite, San Francisco, and ... Read more
This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The extraordinary body of work by photographer Carleton Watkins - taken between 1858 and 1891 - constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in 19th-century American photography. Nearly 13,000 "mammoth" (18 X 22 inch) glass-plate negatives were produced, the majority of which exist in only one surviving print. Of these, fewer than 300 have ever been previously reproduced or exhibited. Drawing on painstaking research, the authors have assembled and catalogued all Watkins' known mammoth-plate photographs, including views of Yosemite, San Francisco, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606060056
SKU
V9781606060056
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Ref
99-1
About . Naef
Weston Naef is Curator Emeritus in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Christine Hult-Lewis is an independent photographic scholar based in San Francisco.
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